diff --git a/lib/Data/Consumer/MySQL2.pm b/lib/Data/Consumer/MySQL2.pm
index 7deaa62..acc3d2d 100644
--- a/lib/Data/Consumer/MySQL2.pm
+++ b/lib/Data/Consumer/MySQL2.pm
@@ -323,7 +323,10 @@ sub acquire {
         $self->debug_warn( 5, "last_id was $self->{last_id}");
         my ($id)= $dbh->selectrow_array( $self->{select_sql}, undef, $self->{last_id}, @{ $self->{select_args} || [] } );
         if ( defined $id ) {
-            next if $self->is_ignored($id);
+            if ( $self->is_ignored($id) ) {
+                $self->{last_id}= $id;
+                next;
+            }
             my ($got_id) = $dbh->selectrow_array( $self->{check_sql}, undef, $id, @{ $self->{check_args} || [] } );
             if ( not defined $got_id) {
                 $self->debug_warn(5, "race condition avoided for '$id', check_sql and select_sql did not line up!");
diff --git a/t/01-mysql.t b/t/01-mysql.t
index 6549609..11ece0d 100644
--- a/t/01-mysql.t
+++ b/t/01-mysql.t
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ use DBI;
 my $debug = @ARGV ? shift : $ENV{TEST_DEBUG};
 our @fake_error;
 our @expect_fail;
+our %ignored;
 our %process_state;
 our @connect_args;
 our $table;
@@ -122,6 +123,11 @@ $consumer->consume(sub {
     my ($consumer,$id,$dbh) = @_; 
     $debug  and $consumer->debug_warn(0,"*** processing '$id'"); 
     $debug and $consumer->debug_warn(0,$id,Dumper($dbh->selectrow_arrayref("select IS_USED_LOCK(CONCAT_WS('=','$0-$table',$id))")));
+    if($ignored{$id}) {
+        $debug and $consumer->debug_warn(0,"* ignoring '$id' as requested\n");
+        $consumer->ignore();
+        return;
+    }
     sleep(1);
     $dbh->do("UPDATE `$table` SET `n` = `n` + 1 WHERE `id` = ?", undef, $id);
 
diff --git a/t/07-mysql-ignore.t b/t/07-mysql-ignore.t
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..173f6e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/07-mysql-ignore.t
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use Cwd;
+our %process_state = (
+    unprocessed => 94,
+    processed   => 10,
+    working => 123,
+    failed => 666,
+);
+
+our $object='Data::Consumer';
+our @expect_fail=([3,0,94]);
+our %ignored=(3=>1);
+
+%ignored = %ignored; #silence warnings on 5.6.2
+@expect_fail = @expect_fail; #silence warnings on 5.6.2
+$object = $object; #silence warnings on 5.6.2
+%process_state = %process_state; # silence warnings on 5.6.2
+
+my $file='t/01-mysql.t';
+my $res = do $file;
+if (!defined $res) {
+    die "Error executing '$file': ",$@||$!,"\nCwd=". cwd(),"\n";
+}
+
+